VFP Conferences, Announcements & Stuff
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WhilFest has been resurrected, but Whil is not putting on the traditional
Great Lakes Great Database Workshop (GLGDW). "Fox is Mature" will be a single track
conference held April 21-23, 2006. You will be working
through best practices for Visual FoxPro developers lead by some of the
best speakers on the Fox circuit. Should be a pretty intense weekend. More details can be
found at
http://www.hentzenwerke.com/conferences/glgdw2006.htm.
The next Advisor Visual FoxPro DevCon has been announced. This one will take place from August 27-31, 2006 in Phoenix, AZ. This
will be the 17th gathering for 5 days of technical education with Visual FoxPro, other Microsoft developer tools, and technologies.
More details can be found at http://advisorevents.com/.
Southwest Fox was very successful in both 2004 and 2005 so Bob Kocher is going to invite
all his fox friends to join them in a great fall conference. It will take place from
October 19-22, 2006 in Tempe Arizona. This conference wants to provide practical techniques and best
practices for all skill levels that can be applied to the problems and
challenges in developing applications today. This is easily the best-rated
FoxPro specific conference in North America and it is moving to a new conference
center / hotel for 2006! More details can be found at
http://www.SWFox.net.
The very popular conference will be held from November 9-11, 2006. Check
out http://devcon.dfpug.de
for more details. FoxPro developers who have attended this conference in the
past call it a must see, must attend conference. I spoke at the 2005 conference
and attended some of the German and as many of the English sessions. I can tell
you it is an outstanding conference. Rainer Becker and his team put on a first
class show.
Past conferences we hope will be scheduled again.
Essential Fox will be part of a larger conference called DevEssential held June 4-7, 2004 at the Kansas City Downtown Marriot, Kansas City, MO. If you develop with Visual FoxPro,
.NET, or SQL Server, DevEssential is
the spring conference for you. Learn from industry experts from around the
world. Get cutting edge techniques and solid fundamentals to solve your
development challenges today. This conference is the third rendition put together by Russ Swall and his team at Vision Data. Check out
http://www.devessentials.com.
OzFox is the biggest Microsoft Visual FoxPro
conference in Australasia. Held over 3 days in
Sydney, Australia, this
highly focused format delivers the best content from the best speakers in the
Fox community. This years conference will be held from November 29 to
December 1, 2004. Check out the details at
http://www.ozfox.com.au/.
F1 Technologies has hosted many developer conferences which focus on the
Visual FoxExpress framework. This year the conference is hosted from September
25-28 2006 at the Radisson in Toledo Ohio. Mike and Toni put on a great
conference to show off the new features in the framework, as well as other
products supporting the FoxPro Community. More details an be found at
http://f1tech.com/.
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